ok, i agree with that. perhaps a good idea would be to make the template default to that of the parent, unless otherwise specified. for the time being I imagine that most EHR-related workbook creation will use the API, either through a perl script or through the custom assay upload code. therefore as long as i can specify a template there, we should be fine.

just so i dont get my hopes up: are you saying that in 10.3 I should expect to be able to specify a custom template using the API or at some future version the API will be extended to add this?

when you say 'existing folder template', does this mean we are limited to existing folder template options? can we make new ones?